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WHAT A CHARACTER!
By Alex Rosen/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 They come with bouquets
6 Away
11 ‘‘____ put our heads
together ... ’’
15 Singer/drummer Collins
19 Cell component
20 Pal, in Peru
21 Put one’s nose where it
doesn’t belong
22 Tilt-a-Whirl, e.g.
23 One arm held up with bent
elbow and wrist, in a chil-
dren’s song
24 Move obliquely
25 Phenomenon such as the
tendency to see human
forms in inanimate objects
27 Any of the groupings of
circled letters in this puzzle
30 Gin product
31 Incredible bargains
32 ‘‘Sorry, Charlie!’’
33 Fits together
34 Savory Chinese snacks
37 Jump over
41 Smoking and swearing, e.g.
44 They await your return, in
brief
45 Have a good cry
46 Syracuse Mets and Worcester
Red Sox, for two
50 ‘‘Music’s most maligned
genre,’’ per the critic Tom
Connick
51 Word with level or lion
52 ‘‘Everything happened so
fast!’’
54 Farm female
55 ‘‘____ Gone Wrong’’ (2021
fi lm)
57 Brunch beverage
59 One of the brothers on ‘‘Mal-
colm in the Middle’’
60 Room in Clue
61 Cause of undue anxiety
63 It may be smoked
64 Hogwash
65 Munch, in modern slang
66 ‘‘____ 17’’ (W.W. II fi lm)
67 One of two in a jack-o’-lan-
tern?
70 Where charity begins, in a
phrase
73 Table part
74 Title for Tussaud: Abbr.
76 ‘‘Midsommar’’ director Aster
77 Digs up
78 Carpenter’s wedge
80 Does gentle stretching
post-exercise, with ‘‘down’’
82 Amp knob
84 Die like the Wicked Witch of
the West
85 Give zero stars
86 Ne’er-do-wells
88 E.R. inserts
89 By birth
90 Plant said to repel bugs
93 ____ Ryerson, insurance
salesman in ‘‘Groundhog
Day’’
94 French pronoun
95 Quarter ____ (when the big
hand is at three)
97 No-longer-current source for
current events
99 Hot, mulled punch tradition-
ally drunk around Christmas
101 Bacteria destroyer
104 French port on the English
Channel
106 Like the Minotaur legend
110 University of Oregon site
112 How to see the image
formed by this puzzle’s
circled letters
115 What’s formed by the circled
letters in this puzzle
117 ‘‘We’re live!’’ studio sign
118 Ancient land in Asia Minor
119 Domino, e.g.
120 Martinez with a statue
outside the Seattle Mariners’
stadium
121 Makes less powerful, in
video-game slang
122 Domino, e.g.
123 ‘‘To ... ’’ things
124 Dino’s tail?
125 Muse of love poetry
126 Arises (from)
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51 City hazard
52 ‘‘My word!’’
53 Pol in the ‘‘I am once again
asking ... ’’ meme
56 City whose police cars are
adorned with a witch logo
58 Card game with a PG-rated
name
60 Boring
62 Purse
65 High degree
68 Not at all popular
69 Messes up
70 x, y and z
71 Chaotic skirmish
72 Fragrant compound
74 Saturn has more than 80 of
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1 Eastern cicada killers, e.g.
2 Suggestions
3 ‘‘ ... said ____ ever’’
4 School
5 Resolves out of court
6 Org. that fl ew a helicopter
on Mars in 2021
7 Fail to mention
8 Information, old-style
9 Rounded quarters
10 Without stopping
11 How Alaska ranks fi rst
among the states
12 It’s often left on the table
13 What ‘‘vey’’ of ‘‘Oy, vey!’’
translates to
14 ____ Games, company
behind Fortnite
15 Rey, to Luke Skywalker
16 Sword handles
17 ‘‘Einstein,’’ sarcastically
18 Puts pressure (on)
21 What can make men swear
from men’s wear?
26 ‘‘____ pass Go ... ’’
28 Leading medal winner at
the Tokyo Olympics
29 Forman who directed ‘‘One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest’’
35 Farm refrain
36 Weight of a paper clip,
roughly
38 Ancient: Prefi x
39 Soul-seller of legend
40 Half-baked?
41 Duck and goose, at times
42 ‘‘See ya’’
43 Group dance popularized in
the U.S. by Desi Arnaz
45 77-Down is on the most
collected one in U.S. history
47 Epiphany
48 Voice actor Blanc
49 Show with over 1,000 hand-
written cue cards each week,
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75 Golf-course machine
77 He performed 636 consecu-
tive sold-out shows in Vegas
from 1969 to ’76
78 Burn-prevention meas.
79 The future Henry V, to Falstaff
80 Fight tooth and nail
81 One who consumes a ritual
meal to absolve the souls of
the dead
83 Bits on book jackets
87 Roc-A-____ Records
91 Part of U.C.L.A.
92 Fashion designer Geoff rey
94 It may run from an emotional
situation
95 [Mwah!]
96 Departed by plane
98 Green vehicle
99 Frank
100 Duke’s org.
101 Pasta topper
102 Like the dog days of
summer
103 Acrobatic
105 Make restitution
107 Faint color
108 ‘‘Take me ____’’
109 Approaches
111 Where the lacrimal glands
can be found
112 Pasta topper
113 Pump some weights
114 Not exactly
116 Vaccine-approving agency.
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